Question / Help Game audio drowns out mic

Manpans

New Member
I have seen a couple of posts about this but nothing with a solution that works for me.

I have been using OBS for about a year no problem. Suddenly when I try to stream, my audience tells me that my game music is blasting and my voice sounds like it's in a fishbowl. I'm confused about this since in OBS's settings, I have my desktop audio turned almost to zero and my mic turned way up.

I've tried a lot of things. I tried boosting my mic from the Windows settings. I've tried lowering the sound settings on the game app. I have gone into the game and adjusted the sound settings. I tried playing around with the levels in the advanced properties in OBS. It does not seem to matter. The game sounds blast at top volume, my own voice is drowned out and sounds far away.

Weirder still, this phenomena seems to be arbitrary. Sometimes everything works just fine. Other times we get the fishbowl effect again. I realize this is a free software but I'm getting really frustrated especially as this has not been an issue in the past and I am not using any new hardware. It's still just my laptop mic, speakers, and my own headphones. Any help with this would be great.

Log file here, though I don't know if it will help:

https://hastebin.com/evugogidig
 

Manpans

New Member
Durp. I think I figured part of it out at least. I had another output set up. If only I had scrolled down slightly (face palm)
 
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